Argentina arrests Colombian drug kingpin (For USA)
Argentina arrests Colombian drug kingpin
AFP Updated November 1, 2012, 1:13 am
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - One of Colombia's most notorious drug kingpins has been arrested in a suburb of Buenos Aires and could be extradited to the United States, Argentina authorities said Wednesday.
Henry de Jesus Lopez Londono, a leader of the Los Urabenos cartel, was taken into custody on an international arrest warrant late Tuesday at a restaurant in the town of Pilar, some 50 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, where he was dining with his bodyguards, said a police source who requested anonymity.
Lopez Londono "is subject to a US capture order. One of the possibilities is his extradition to the United States," Sergio Berni, Argentina's deputy security minister, said at a news conference.
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The Colombian police chief added that the arrest was the result of an operation headed by President Juan Manuel Santo, in consultation with Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.
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In recent years, several Colombian drug traffickers have been arrested in Argentina, considered a country where narcotics are both consumed and transited through.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/15269840/
(Why haven't we heard the right-wing half-wit choir gibbering about Cristina Fernandez harboring narcotraffickers?
It would make as much sense as the perennial howl about Hugo Chavez and FARCs.)
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Colombian Drug Trafficker Captured in Argentina
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November 1,2012
BOGOTA – Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, one of Colombia’s most-wanted drug-trafficking suspects, has been captured in Buenos Aires, the National Police said.
The 41-year-old Lopez Londoño, a top boss of the Los Urabeños drug gang, and a bodyguard were arrested at a restaurant in the Argentine capital thanks to information that Colombia’s Dijin police agency provided to Argentine authorities.
Prior to his arrest on Tuesday, Lopez Londoño was “the biggest supplier of cocaine” to Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel, Colombian National Police director Gen. Jose Roberto Leon said in a press conference Wednesday.
The drug trafficker, who fled Colombia two years ago amid pressure from security forces, had been on the lam in several Latin American countries before he was finally tracked down in the Argentine capital.
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